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Watch: Are You #TeamTheRock or #TeamVinDiesel?
The 559th installment in the Fast and the Furious movie series is upon us, and it’s called The Fate of the Furious. Yes, this is the franchise that cannot be stopped! With all the usual players—Tyrese, Chris Bridges, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, the Rock, returning star Jason Statham—and newcomer Charlize Theron, The Fate of the…
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Watch: Chicago’s Love Letter to Chance the Rapper
Chance the Rapper is just days shy of his 24th birthday, and he’s already regarded as one of the most important figures to ever come out of Chicago. “He’s a true role model,” says Emily Jones, a Chicago native. “It’s kind of like what Barack was for us in 2008.” The love is reciprocal. Chancelor…
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Journalists Talk Race: Out of Our Comfort Zones
Broadcasters Release Guide to Covering Race Atlanta Journal-Constitution Begins Race Series Ky. Paper Knocked for Story on Passenger’s Past Why We’re Seeing More of the Word ‘Queer’ Native Journalists Say ‘American Indian’ Is OK White House Reporters Pick Comedian Minhaj Murdochs Await Findings of O’Reilly Inquiry Investigation by Students From 18 Schools Awarded Syria’s Citizen…
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Pulitzers Abound for Reporting on the Defenseless
3 African Americans Win for Arts and Letters New Editor of British Vogue Is Male and Black 13 Who Died Waiting for Their Day in Court Racial Difference in Car Insurance Doesn’t Add Up AP Intern Died Tragically, but He’s Inspiring Others Arrested Jan. 20, They Still Don’t Have Their Phones Fox Hires Outside Firm…
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Watch: Michelle Carter, the Shot-Put Diva, on Loving Your Body, No Matter Your Size
USA Track & Field star Michelle Carter walks into any space exuding confidence, with a bright smile, carefully combed tresses and a freshly beat face. Carter is the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the women’s shot put and an entrepreneur. Can you say, #BlackGirlMagic? But life hasn’t always been a crystal stair for this three-time…
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Watch: Hashtag Revolution: 16-Year-Old Girl Teaches Only Lesson You’ll Ever Need About #Melanin
Hashtags have defined pop culture. You spot them all over social media, and now many of them have become popular phrases, especially when they highlight blackness: #BlackBoyJoy, #BlackLivesMatter, #GrowingUpBlack, and the list goes on. #Melanin is a shining example of a hashtag-turned-movement. Not only is it a fresh and delicious word to use in place…
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Watch Out Loud: What Is #BlackBoyJoy and Why Do We Need It?
I was obsessed with Chance the Rapper after watching him live his unapologetic best life at the 2016 Video Music Awards on MTV. He stuck to my rib so much, I asked my managing editor, Danielle Belton, if I could write about him. She obliged my random request. Not only did I write about Chance…
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Did Syrian Children’s Light Skin Motivate Trump?
‘The White-Oriented News Media Avoid Race’ Trump Supporters’ Attacks Take Their Toll: Journalists Seek to Foil the ‘Contentious and Ugly’ Race Influences Policies on Opioids, Crack How a Series on Latinos Won the Top Pulitzer Prize Short Takes “This week, it was the images — gruesome photos of a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians…
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Watch: Black Trans Women Are Dying
Woman is the nigger of the world. —John Lennon This loaded song lyric is not only a manifestation of a Yoko Ono-hypnotized John Lennon, but a statement that stops you in your tracks. If that’s the case, then what of black women? Moreover, what of transgender women, and to take it even further—what of black…
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Watch: Can the Cast of Going in Style Do Good Morgan Freeman Impressions?
Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine star in Zach Braff’s latest film, Going in Style, in which they all play desperate old men who rob a bank because their retirement funds have been squandered. The movie is exactly what it sounds like: curmudgeonly (but still somehow sweet) old men engaging in all kinds of…